Cover: Peter Campbell

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

• Neal Ascherson
• Julian Barnes
• Peter Campbell
• Jenny Diski
• Sheila Fitzpatrick
• John Gray
• Rosemary Hill
• Michael Kulikowski
• Benjamin Kunkel
• Chase Madar
• Ferdinand Mount
• Andrew O’Hagan
• Jonathan Raban
• Joseph Stiglitz
• Jenny Turner
• Michael Wood

Contents

• Neal Ascherson

  • Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual by Michael Scammell

• Letters
  David Weiss, Louise Hirsch, Rob Mansell-Ward, David Elstein, Iain Bamforth, Benjamin Kunkel, Albion Urdank, Geraldine Lindley, Charles Lock, Chris Purnell, André Burguière, Craig Griffin

• Julian Barnes

  • Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb
  • The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps by Eric Hazan, translated by David Fernbach

• Benjamin Kunkel

  • Valences of the Dialectic by Fredric Jameson

• Joseph Stiglitz

  • Keynes: The Return of the Master by Robert Skidelsky

• John Gray

  • The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron by Tim Bale
  • Back from the Brink: The Inside Story of the Tory Resurrection by Peter Snowdon

• Peter Campbell
  At the V&A: Quilts

• Jonathan Raban

  • Red Tory: How Left and Right Have Broken Britain and How We Can Fix it by Phillip Blond

• Ferdinand Mount

  • Where Power Lies: Prime Ministers v. the Media by Lance Price

• Andrew O’Hagan
  Short Cuts: The Happiness Project

• Sheila Fitzpatrick

  • Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service
  • Stalin’s Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky by Bertrand Patenaude

• Michael Wood
  At the Movies

  • The Ghost Writer directed by Roman Polanski
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo directed by Niels Arden Oplev

• Chase Madar

  • Victors’ Justice: From Nuremberg to Baghdad by Danilo Zolo, translated by M.W. Weir

• Michael Kulikowski

  • The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithridates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy by Adrienne Mayor

• Jenny Turner

  • The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis

• Michael Wood

  • Point Omega by Don DeLillo

• Rosemary Hill

  • Iris Murdoch: A Writer at War – Letters and Diaries 1939-45 edited by Peter Conradi
  • With Love and Rage: A Friendship with Iris Murdoch by David Morgan

• Jenny Diski
  Diary: Crabs